Linford Tall Planter Large 55.5x86 Chalk Beige - Steel Top Insert

How it works

The Linford Tall is the column version — the same profile drawn up to full height, so it marks a doorway or breaks up a room rather than being something you look down into. This steel top is a ring cut to sit inside it, with a central opening sized to take a standard Fomosa pot, so the plant sits at the right height from the start.

You don't pack the base with polystyrene, rubble or offcuts to lift the plant, and you don't have to dig any of it out again when the plant is changed. Bark chip fills around the Fomosa pot and over the top itself, so the steel disappears into the finished arrangement.

Size and proportion

At 86cm the planter is already most of the height, so it takes a floor specimen from about 120cm upward — a 2.5m palm or a 2.45m ficus sits in it without looking overloaded.

Treat that as a styling guide rather than a rule. We work to roughly one-third planter to two-thirds plant, though the reverse and a straight 1:1 both read well — and a taller specimen in the same planter is a statement, not a mistake. Our pot and plant combinations show the range in practice.

Specification

• Material — Mild steel, powder-coated beige, closely matched to the planter
• Shape — Ring
• For — Artificial planting
• Fits — Linford Tall Planter Large 55.5 × 86 Chalk Beige, a polyresin planter

Every top is powder-coated to the colour of the planter it belongs to, so this one is beige. Once the bark chip goes over it, only the inner edge shows.

Completing the build

The top is sold on its own. To build the planter up you will also need:

• The planter — Linford Tall Planter Large 55.5 × 86 Chalk Beige
• Plastic Black Fomosa Pot, 23 × 24cm, to hold the plant
• Bark chip, to finish over the top — as a guide, two 1kg bags for this size
• Your plant

Not sure which parts the planter you have takes? Send us the planter name and we will tell you.

Would rather it came ready-made? Our pot and plant combinations arrive complete — the right plant in the right planter, with everything needed to build what you see in the photograph.